Designing and Developing a Mobile-Cloud E-Learning Application

The mobile-cloud E-Learning application is an application software which can be
downloaded into a mobile phone or a smart phone. This application software functions with the
presence of a network, which is the Internet. The objectives of this project are to study on how
the contents of the current existing E-Learning can be adapted to the mobile phones/smart
phones which will then lead to designing and developing the contents of the mobile E-Learning
application to suit the small screens of the mobile phones/smart phones using the cloud
computing concept. This objective was made due to the problems identified during the research
of the limitations of the current E-Learning system which are usability and accessibility
problems. The scope of this study is to design and develop a mobile-cloud E-Learning
application for the specifications of the BlackBerry OS 6 with the functions of viewing and
posting announcements as well as downloading and uploading lecture notes by students,
lecturers and management staffs respectively. The methodology used for the research are
distributing online questionnaire and conducting interviews. On the other hand, the project
methodology chosen is the prototyping method which requires users’ participation. Finally, up to
date, the distributed online showed positive response from the responders whereby they support
the mobile version of the E-Learning system.